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We collect data from the radio to the gamma-ray range for three complete samples of blazars: the Slew Survey and the 1Jy samples of BL Lacs and the 2Jy sample of Flat Spectrum Radio-Loud Quasars (FSRQs). The fraction of objects detected in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Fossati , L. Maraschi , A. Celotti , A. Comastri , G. Ghisellini

We have undertaken a survey of archived, pointed ROSAT PSPC data for blazars by correlating the ROSAT WGACAT database with several publicly available radio catalogs, restricting our candidate list to serendipitous flat radio spectrum…

We investigate the relationship between accretion rates and the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of BL Lac objects, using a sample of objects for which published information on the host galaxies, emission-line luminosities, and peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jian-Min Wang , Ruediger Staubert , Luis Ho

We present bolometric corrections, as a function of wavelength, for powerful radio-loud quasars from the Revised Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Galaxies (3CRR) at 1 < z < 2. The bolometric luminosities are derived by integrating the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Mojegan Azadi , Belinda Wilkes , Joanna Kuraszkiewicz , Steven. P. Willner , Matthew L. N. Ashby

We present measurements of the spectral properties for a total of 526,265 quasars, out of which 63% have continuum S/N$>3$ pixel$^{-1}$, selected from the fourteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR14) quasar catalog.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 Suvendu Rakshit , C. S. Stalin , Jari Kotilainen

We have recently proposed a new simplified scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) or BL Lacs according to the prescriptions of unified schemes, and to a varying combination of Doppler boosted radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 P. Giommi , P. Padovani , G. Polenta

The parsec-scale radio properties of 232 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), most of which are blazars, detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , F. K. Schinzel

The $\gamma-$ray emission from flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) is thought to be dominated by the inverse Compton scattering of the external sources of photon fields, e.g., accretion disk, broad-line region (BLR), and torus. FSRQs show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Savithri H. Ezhikode , Amit Shukla , Gulab C. Dewangan , Pramod K. Pawar , Sushmita Agarwal , Blesson Mathew , Akhil Krishna R

The gamma-ray emission offers a powerful diagnostic tool to probe jets and their surroundings in flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ). In particular, sources emitting at high energies (>10 GeV) give us the strongest constraints. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Pacciani , F. Tavecchio , I. Donnarumma , A. Stamerra , L. Carrasco , E. Recillas , A. Porras , M. Uemura

We present a new X-ray luminosity function of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) utilizing the latest {\it Swift}/BAT 105-month X-ray source catalog. Contrary to previous studies of FSRQs in the X-ray band, using the luminosity-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Koyo Toda , Yasushi Fukazawa , Yoshiyuki Inoue

The relationship between the black hole mass and velocity dispersion indicated with [O III] line width is investigated for a sample of 87 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) selected from SDSS DR3 quasar catalogue. We found the M_bh -…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Minfeng Gu , Zhaoyu Chen , Xinwu Cao

We perform a spectral analysis of a sample of 11 medium redshift (1.5 < z < 2.2) quasars. Our sample all have optical spectra from the SDSS, infrared spectra from GNIRS and TSPEC, and X-ray spectra from XMM-Newton. We first analyse the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 James S. Collinson , Martin J. Ward , Chris Done , Hermine Landt , Martin Elvis , Jonathan C. McDowell

We measure the spectral properties of a representative sub-sample of 187 quasars, drawn from the Parkes Half-Jansky, Flat-radio-spectrum Sample (PHFS). Quasars with a wide range of rest-frame optical/UV continuum slopes are included in the…

We analyse a group of radio sources, a subset of the 200 mJy sample, all of which have core-jet radio structures measured with VLBI and have flat spectra stretching from the radio to the millimetre/sub-millimetre band. Thus the objects have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Anton , I. W. A. Browne

Blazars are classically divided into the BL Lac (BLL) and Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) subclasses, corresponding to radiatively inefficient and efficient accretion regimes, respectively, largely based on the equivalent width (EW) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 J. J. Ruan , S. F. Anderson , R. M. Plotkin , W. N. Brandt , T. H. Burnett , A. D. Myers , D. P. Schneider

The flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1510-089 is one of the most active blazars across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, displaying periods of flaring activity. This study explores its spectral variability over a decade. By employing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Alfredo Amador-Portes , Vahram Chavushyan , Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez , José Ramón-Valdés

Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQ) are the most powerful blazars in the gamma-ray band. Although they are supposed to be good candidates in producing high energy neutrinos, no secure detection of FSRQs has been obtained up to now, except…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 C. Righi , A. Palladino , F. Tavecchio , F. Vissani

We report on a multiwavelength survey of a sample of 42 flat-spectrum radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (RLNLS1s). This is the largest known sample of this type of active galactic nucleus (AGN) to date. We found that 17% of sources…

Surveys have shown radio-loud (RL) quasars constitute $10 \%$-$15 \%$ of the total quasar population. However, it is unknown if the radio-loud fraction (RL quasars/Total quasars) remains consistent among different parameter spaces. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Avinanda Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharjee

We reevaluate 610 sources classified as Flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in the 5th edition of the Roma-BZCAT. Optical spectra from SDSS DR16 confirm broad emission lines within $0.11 \leq z \leq 5.28$. To assess their blazar-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Jonhatan U. Guerrero-González , Vahram Chavushyan , Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez
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